A 53-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in the strangulation of a woman whose body was found at a Third Ward house over the weekend, Houston police said.

Harvey Davis is charged with murder in the death of Linda Spells, whose body was found about noon Saturday in the 2400 block of Francis in the back yard of a house connected to a church next door. The 53-year-old woman was partially clothed and had no identification, investigators said.

The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences ruled her cause of death was strangulation. Investigators said further investigation showed that Davis has been with Spells before her death.